Hardest language to learn.

[ChazInAz]

5. Funny, isn't it?

I grew up in a neighborhood in Springfield, Illinois that consisted entirely of various flavors of Slav, Eastern European and Russian...all first generation Americans. Since they'd all been living there for decades, everybody spoke some of everyone else's native language. As a kid, I managed to pick up bits and pieces of Russ, Hungarian and Polish. though I never really learned to speak the tongues conversationally. Of course, since most of these folks were miners, brick-yard and foundry workers, a lot of what I learned was not for polite society.